data:Ogsadai/22/server/prepare/notes

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Operating system
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server version 10 SP1 64 bit

Optimizing the configuration:


Use minimal operating system installation without firewall. To verify installed packages use the command

  • rpm -qa | grep package_name

Install the following additional packages:

  • yum -y install wget yum rpm make gcc gcc-c++ tar sed zlib openssl

After the installation is complete, turn off any unnecessary services (like gpm, sendmail, cups, haldaemon, messagebus, pcmcia, anacron, atd) with the following command:

  • chkconfig <SERVICE> off

Configure the following settings for the server:

Additional Software
  • the Globus_toolkit prerequisites without Torque client:
    • java-1_5_0-sun (not fully compatible with java-1_5_0-ibm)
    • PostgreSQL 8.1.9 (postgresql, postgresql-libs, postgresql-server)
    • Perl 5.8.8 (with XML::PARSER)
    • sudo
    • ant 1.6.5
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To make all libraries from ant available do the following as root:
su -
cd /usr/share/ant/lib
ln -s /usr/share/java/ant.jar ant.jar
ln -s /usr/share/java/ant-launcher.jar ant-launcher.jar
  • There is specially prepared Globus binary version for OGSA-DAI which was designed to run on 64 bit SLES 10 platforms.
  • DBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL or Oracle)
  • JDBC driver
    • MySQL versions 3.1.6 and 5.0.6
    • PostgreSQL version 8.1-407 (JDBC2)
    • Oracle version 1.4

WARNING: Oracle is not fully supported at the moment. If you use Oracle, you need to setup the user accounts and databases for VOs manually. The user accounts and databases have to match the settings as they are defined withing the 'SiteConfigure.properties' file.

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